Cover: Arianne Zurcher

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Martin Amis
• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• Jonathan Coe
• Alan Dixon
• P.N. Furbank
• Ian Gilmour
• Jose Harris
• Rosemary Hill
• Michael Howard
• Frank Kermode
• Victor Mallet
• Karl Miller
• Adrian Mitchell
• A.D. Nuttall
• Peter Pulzer
• Michael Shelden
• Nicholas Spice
• John Sutherland
• Julian Symons
• David Trotter
• Hugo Young

Contents

• Martin Amis

  • Iron John: A Book about Men by Robert Bly
  • The way men think: Intellect, Intimacy and the Erotic Imagination by Liam Hudson and Bernadine Jacot
  • Utne Reader. Men, it’s time to pull together: The Politics of Masculinity

• Letters
  Jasmine Killen, Gillian Slovo, Donald Davie, Michael Shelden, Denis MacShane, Zygmunt Frankel, Brian Stone, Gabriel Austin

• Michael Howard

  • On Future War by Martin van Creveld

• Victor Mallet

  • The Samson Option: Israel, America and the Bomb by Seymour Hersh
  • Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the US-Israeli Covert Relationship by Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn

• Peter Pulzer

  • The Constitution of the United Kingdom
  • A People’s Charter

• Hugo Young

  • Thatcher’s People by John Ranelagh
  • Staying Power by Peter Walker

• Ian Gilmour

  • The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century by Peter Linebaugh

• Jose Harris

  • Letters to Eva, 1969-1983 by A.J.P. Taylor, edited by Eva Haraszti Taylor

• A.D. Nuttall

  • Marvellous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World by Stephen Greenblatt

• P.N. Furbank

  • D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912 by John Worthen
  • The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. Vol. VI: 1927-28 edited by James Boulton, Margaret Boulton and Gerald Lacy

• Patricia Beer

  • With and Without Buttons by Mary Butts, edited by Nathalie Blondel

• Alan Dixon
  Poem: ‘Presentimento’

• Adrian Mitchell
  Poem: ‘Short back and sides with a blowtorch, please’

• Frank Kermode

  • Collected Poems by Henry Reed, edited with an introduction by Jon Stallworthy

• John Sutherland

  • The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble
  • Happily Ever After by Jenny Diski
  • Of Love and Asthma by Ferdinand Mount

• Jonathan Coe

  • In Black and White by Christopher Stevenson
  • The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson
  • Cley by Carey Harrison

• John Bayley

  • Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
  • Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood

• Julian Symons

  • Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life by William Pritchard
  • Randall Jarrell: Selected Poems edited by William Pritchard

• David Trotter

  • From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature by Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury

• Rosemary Hill

  • Gertrude Jekyll by Sally Festing
  • People’s Parks by Hazel Conway
  • The History of Garden Design: The Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day edited by Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot

• Karl Miller
  Diary

• Nicholas Spice

  • Trial of Strength: Furtwängler and the Third Reich by Fred Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan
  • Menuhin: A Family Portrait by Tony Palmer

• Michael Shelden

  • Bachelors of Art: Edward Perry Warren and the Lewes House Brotherhood by David Sox